101 Favorite Saltwater Flies by David Klausmeyer

Author:David Klausmeyer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Published: 2015-06-17T16:00:00+00:00

Surf Candies

Hook: Regular saltwater hook, sizes 6 to 2.

Thread: Clear monofilament.

Tail: Ultra Hair or bucktail, and thin Flashabou or Krystal Flash.

Body: Silver or pearl tinsel.

Head: Epoxy or light-activated acrylic.

THIRTY YEARS AGO, THERE WAS A FLY SHOP IN KNOXVILLE, Tennessee, called The Creel. One Saturday while visiting the shop, four or five fellows were crowded around the tying table, making a new type of fly. It was something featured in the latest issue of what was then called American Angler & Fly Tyer magazine. They were having fun making the pattern, but debated whether it was really a fly; the synthetic fiber tail and epoxy head broke all conventions about what a fly should look like. There was no question, however, that the fly certainly looked fishy.

I didn’t know it at the time, but I was looking at Surf Candies, the revolutionary flies developed by Bob Popovics.

More than two decades later, while interviewing Bob about the history of Surf Candies, he explained that he developed his idea in the 1970s. He needed flies that toothy bluefish couldn’t destroy. The first Surf Candies were nothing more than bucktail streamers with epoxy heads. Eventually, Bob made the tails using FisHair and similar synthetic fibers, and he added eyes to his flies. Using these materials, he designed Surf Candies in colors and sizes to imitate spearing, small sand eels, and a wide variety of the baitfish he found in his home waters along the New Jersey shore.

Here we see the most recent generation of Surf Candies. The heads are flanked with small pieces of foil called Fleye Foils, and rather than using epoxy, Bob coated the heads with a light-activated acrylic called Tuffleye.

The Surf Candy is a very adaptable pattern. Add a small metal cone to the nose before tying the fly to create the Deep Candy. If you fish tropical waters, use the Surf Candy design to tie an imitation of a needlefish that no barracuda can destroy. The Surf Candy is bulletproof.

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